Implementing Water Projects in Africa? Secure up to €5,000,000 Grants from the African Water Facility

Deadline: 30 September 2014

Are you an organization implementing water projects in Africa? Do you face financial and technical challenges in implementing those projects? You can apply for the African Water Facility (AWF) grant awards!

The African Water Facility (AWF) awards grants of between €50,000 and €5,000,000 to the regional member countries of the African Development Bank (ADB), political subdivisions or agencies working within these countries, or regional agencies or institutions concerned with water resource development in Africa.

Strategic Pillars

1. Project Preparation
2. Water Governance
3. Water Knowledge

Priority Issues

1. Climate Change
2. Social and Gender Equity
3. Environmental Protection

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be a non-governmental organization committed to the continents or national development priorities, with proposed activities that will be implemented in Africa.
• Applicants must be Africa based or provide evidence of partnership with African institutions.
• Applicants must have an appropriate organizational and management capacity, including a governing board.
• The proposals must be supported by the national government.
• Proposed activities and projects must meet one of the above mentioned strategic pillars.
• Eligible organizations should complete the application form and submit through the AWF website.

For more information, please visit Grants for water projects in Africa.

Does your Project Benefit Refugees and Displaced People? The Ockenden Prizes of $150,000 awaits you!

Deadline: 31 July 2014

The deadline for Ockenden International Prize 2015, an opportunity to fly to the United Kingdom to present your project, is approaching near. If you are an organization with programs, projects or activities fostering self-reliance for the refugees and displaced people anywhere around the globe, this opportunity is for you! If you are not the actor but know an organization working on the sector, The Ockenden International requests you to nominate the organization for the grant prize.

Prizes

1. $100000 for the grand winner
2. $25000 each to two runner ups

The three winners will present their projects to a specialist panel of five judges on 3 March 2015 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University. The 2015 Presentation ceremony will award the three winners with their winning amounts.

Particular attention is given to the

1. Initiatives that promote self-reliance among refugees and/or displaced people.
2. Approaches that have proved to be highly effective in improving the lives of refugees and/or displaced people.
3. Work that has been carried out in especially difficult circumstances.
4. Organizations with strong governance and financial management.

The applicants must be able to show that there have been measurable achievements and outcomes leading to real change in the lives of those helped.

The submitted project must

• Benefit refugees or displaced people.
• Be initiated no earlier than 1 May 2011.
• Focus on helping refugees and/or displaced people.

The organizers consider postal entries from the registered charities without access to the Internet.

The Future Technologies for Water Competition of US$20,000 Grant Award

Deadline: 31 July 2014

The University of North Carolina, The Water Institute has announced The Future Technologies for Water Competition of US$20,000 Grant Award. The competition is aimed at identifying breakthrough technologies for safe water with a sustainable business plan with wide-scale applicability.

Prizes

1. First Place – $15,000
2. Second Place – $5000

The competition is joint program of Takata Corporation and The Water Institute. Takata Corporation, dedicated to protect human life, develops new safety technologies and makes it available globally. The Water Institute providing global academic leadership for economically, environmentally, socially and technically sustainable management of water, sanitation and hygiene for equitable health and human development, is committed to further innovation in sustainable water technologies. Takata Corporation is sponsoring the competition with the prize money.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicant can be an individual or a team of two or more people. An individual cannot compete on two teams.
• The founding member of the team must have at least 25% ownership of the venture.
• Any faculty or staff teaching or working in the field of entrepreneurship at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School or Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health cannot take part as competitor.
• Employee of Takata, individual directly related to a Takata employee, or already involved in Takata’s incubators are not eligible to participate in the competition.
• Venture should not have risen more than $10,000 in seed funding or “equity financing” other than from founding members are eligible to compete. This does not include grant funding or prize money from other competitions.
• The venture should have fewer than 10 paying customers and less than $25,000 in booked revenue.
• The venture must be operating for no more than 12 months.

For more information, please visit The Future Technologies for Water Competition.

Organizations Practicing Healthcare Innovation to Improve Newborn Survival: You have $1Million Grant Opportunity

Deadline: 25 August 2014

The second annual Healthcare Innovation Award is open for nominations of organizations that are practicing innovative approaches for reducing under-5 child mortality. This is a global partnership program of GSK and Save the Children. The organizations that will be judged as practicing most innovative and effective ways to improve the newborn survival will be provided from US$10,000 to US$400,000.

The winners will be promoted through public award announcements and international media coverage to help publicize the winning innovations that are increasing access to healthcare around the world. Major goal of this innovation award is to provide a platform for the innovations and to share information about them so that others interested in improving healthcare for children can learn from, replicate, and adapt these innovations to new environments.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nominee can be an organization (public, private, or nonprofit), academic/research institution or healthcare facility.
• Nominee and the innovation must be based in a country classified as low, upper middle or lower middle income by the World Bank.
• Nominees must have created proven and successful results through their innovation in the two years preceding the nomination.
• Nominee cannot be an individual.
• National government bodies may not be nominees, but institutions funded by governments can be nominated.
• The nominations must be made with express permission of the organizers.
• If the eligible innovation is a joint project, more than one eligible organization can be jointly nominated.
• Nominations of more than one eligible innovation from a single eligible organization are also accepted.
• Employees of the Save the Children and GSK, any of their group companies, and any other person directly connected with the HIAs or the Awards cannot be nominated.
• Employees of GSK and Save the Children cannot nominate any organization.
• Nominations can be made by the organization itself or a third-party organization or individual.

For more information, please visit $1M Healthcare Innovation Award.